For heating, or otherwise thermoforming skates, you need to use a special oven. This will allow you to feel more comfortable in them later. After heating, put on your skates and sit in them for 10 minutes.
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Instructions
Step 1
Choose your skates in size so that they fit snugly against your leg, but at the same time, they do not sting, and the leg does not get tired in them. Send your skates to a special oven for thermoforming skates. It is better to trust the manufacturer from Germany, where they produce excellent ovens that ideally maintain the temperature inside 80 ° C, which is necessary for heating the skates, and the timer and fan allow you to set the ideal settings for this procedure.
Step 2
Leave the skates in the oven for 3 to 5 minutes, you can find out exactly by reading the instructions for this brand of skates that come with them. If not, contact the store where the skates were purchased and ask for advice on this matter. Nearly all reputable ice skate manufacturers include a thermoforming option to help fit your skates to fit your foot. At the same time, the parts of the skate specially provided for this heat up, change their shape, ideally wrapping the leg.
Step 3
Once the skates have been removed from the molding oven, slide them onto your feet and lace them up as if you were about to go out on the ice. The ridge should sit tightly on the leg, while the leg should be comfortable. After this, stand motionless or sit in them for at least 10 minutes. Immobility is necessary so that the leg does not move in the skate during movement, inadvertently shifting the forming points, knocking down its accuracy. In such skates, it will be very inconvenient to skate on ice in the future.
Step 4
Not all skates can be heated. Before you start thermoforming, be sure to consult the seller or go to the manufacturer's website, where you can familiarize yourself with the nuances of warming up this particular model of skates.
Step 5
Even the best quality skates can be thermoformed no more than four times. If you continue heating the skates more times, then the elements that soften when heated will lose their rigidity upon cooling, and this violation will already be at the molecular level, and nothing can be done, the skates will be hopelessly spoiled.
